Comments on: This Boy

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:43:51 +0000

No, not that particular one I suppose, because everyone can be in on it.

By: M57Blackie

M57Blackie — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:07:02 +0000

Actually my mate and I do this song, in two part harmony. We do come around and do the bridge the second time. I like how it feels. I also believe that time constraints for radio play probably led to only one go round.

By: M57Blackie

M57Blackie — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:55:29 +0000

One my all time favorite Beatles songs. I am a huge fan of harmonies and this is superb. I could never pick out the George part until I listened to the Italian guy singing who breaks down the song on YouTube do George’s part. Now I can’t help but hear it. The mark of a good harmony is when parts seem to disappear into one sound. This Boy does that for me. Love singing it !

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:37:37 +0000

So John switched from lead to bass when they all sang together? Never knew that!

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:10:05 +0000

Another clue for us all?

By: jkeithda

jkeithda — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:09:14 +0000

John sang low, Paul High and George down the middle.

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:18:39 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more Bob!! “I Want To Hold Your Hand” was so obviously commercial to sell records, but “This Boy” really showed their chops as musicians & vocalists!

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:09:56 +0000

Yes, there is an edit at the end of the solo from a previous take. I read about it on another website.

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:06:17 +0000

John sings low melody, George on middle harmony, Paul high end harmony. Interesting to listen to John’s low melody, it is almost felt & not heard! He was saving himself for that “blistering middle-eight”

By: Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:03:41 +0000

I agree whole heartedly, This Boy is one of my favorite early songs. John’s middle eight solo is heart wrenching!

By: Celeste

Celeste — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:37:35 +0000

Well I think that McLennon is real 🙂

By: John Stockhausen

John Stockhausen — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:48:42 +0000

I put this slightly behind the harmonies in “If I Fell”, which are, in my opinion, more interesting, and always gave me fits trying to sing the harmony properly after the key change. Still a bangin’ harmony song, though!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:56:20 +0000

I am guessing you were there when these songs were written so you can tell us precisely who wrote what. I look forward to your definitive book on this subject. If none of the aforementioned is true then stop your speculation and Paul bashing-it’s counter productive.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:58:41 +0000

This is my first comment. Just want to say thanks to the creators of the site, first of all. I think it’s odd that John cites this and In My Life as songs where he was, “writing melody with the best of them” – is he suggesting it has melody cause it’s a slow song? I think ALL his songs (and the other Beatles songs) are full of melody… he was obviously really paranoid about it.

By: Arnie Porter

Arnie Porter — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:04:41 +0000

And to think this song was written in 1963 is mind boggling. Nothing close to this had ever been attempted up to that time.

By: JFrench

JFrench — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:28:54 +0000

GEorge is middle, John bottom…it’s amazing though how George sounds a lot like Lennon on his own songs .

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 06:14:34 +0000

the first Beatle song i ever heard, was still in grammer school. George said, before he passed away that the guitar he is playing, he gave away later on.

By: Jacquelyn Davis

Jacquelyn Davis — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:59:18 +0000

Paul is the top voice, John’s on the middle, and George is singing the bottom.

By: LMW28IF

LMW28IF — Sat, 09 May 2015 20:59:57 +0000

I came to realize that the whole Ringo’s Theme aspect of this song is entirely because George Martin’s instrumental of the song was used in Ringo’s wandering around scene in the movie A Hard Day’s Night, but for awhile it got me to wondering if maybe the lyric was a taunt from John toward Pete Best. It kind of worked, Pete wanting the group to drop Ringo and take him back in the band. Just silliness.

By: Johan cavalli

Johan cavalli — Thu, 07 May 2015 17:25:25 +0000

If we analyse the song musically, we have to differ the melody from harmony. Lennon always said he composed the melody, and McCartney said “we did it together”. ( McCartney is not clear and distinct – consciously? He could have meant he did the harmonies). But the press people is always more positive to McCartney (because he did Yesterday and always is smiling?) and call it a co-composition. The melody is wonderful even without the harmonies. Listen to “Ringos theme” in A Hard Days Night.